Platform

in the United States, is the policy of a political or religious
party. Of course the meaning is the policy on which the party stands.
An American revival. Each separate principle is a plank of the
platform. Queen Elizabeth, in answer to the Supplication of the
Puritants (offered to the Parliament in 1506), said she “had examined
the platform, and account it most prejudicial to the religion
established, to her crown, her government, and her subjects.”

Again, the Rev. John Norris writes, in 1687, that Plato said, “God
created implying that all things were
formed according to His special platforms, meaning the ideas formed
in the divine mind.” The word has been resuscitated in North America.
Lily, in 1581, says he “discovered the whole platform of the
conspiracie.” (Discovery of the New World, p. 115.)

“Their declaration of principles- their `platform,' to use the
appropriate term- was settled and published to the world. Its
distinctive elements, or `planks,' are financial.” —The Times.